Talk To Dead People in ParaNorman

No doubt, ParaNorman is one of the most awaited animation movie attendance in 2012. Duo director, are names that have ever been involved in several famous animated movies. Sam Fell ever make Flushed Away (2006) and The Tale of Despereaux (2008). Meanwhile, Chris Butler, who also doubles as a screenwriter was once part of the department arts for the movie Corpse Bride (2005) and Coraline (2009). Not surprisingly, the display is dark and scary ParaNorman slightly reminiscent of those two films. ParaNorman himself tells the story of a boy aged 13 years who can talk to dead people. Although considered strange, as the city he lived threatened by a zombie attack, he was the only person who might know how to save the humans who were there.

Director: Chris Butler, Sam Fell
Script Writer: Chris Butler
Voice: Leslie Mann (Sandra Babcock), Anna Kendrick (Courtney), John Goodman (Mr. Prenderghast), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Alvin), Casey Affleck (Mitch), Kodi Smit-McPhee (Norman)
Release Date: August 17, 2012 (United States)

What Will Be Become In Animated

The most fascinating — and startling — category was animated feature film when nominations were announced this week for the 84th Academy Awards. “The Adventures of Tintin” – which won the Golden Globe in that category – wasn’t nominated at all.

 As did two international entries — “Chico &Rita” and “A Cat in Paris” – that present vibrant adventures with a classic hand-drawn approach, instead, Gore Verbinski’s old West adventure “Rango” made the list. Rounding out the category were two DreamWorks Animation releases, “Puss in Boots” and “Kung Fu Panda 2,” and don’t think for a minute that went over well at the Emeryville headquarters of Pixar.

There was still hope that it would bring home the automatic Oscar nomination that has become a Pixar tradition though “Cars 2″ didn’t win over critics. No one was happier about the nominations than Guillermo del Toro, who is now working closely with DreamWorks Animation on its projects.

The Transformers TV Series In Roots

"More Than Meets the Eye" pilot/mini-series : The Transformers (TV series)
First aired in the United States in September 1984, then in the United Kingdom in early 1985, the three-part mini-series was animated by Japan's famous Toei Animation studio.

Where they warred for the resources that would take them back home, the pilot introduced Optimus Prime's Autobots (Brawn, Bluestreak, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Gears, Hound, Huffer, Ironhide, Jazz, Mirage, Prowl, Ratchet, Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, Trailbreaker, Wheeljack, Windcharger, and Hauler (who was seen only in vehicle mode, had no dialogue and was not seen again in the animated series)) and Megatron's Decepticons (Starscream, Skywarp, Thundercracker, Reflector (leader Viewfinder, Spyglass & Spectro), Soundwave and his cassette spies (Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, Ravage, Rumble and Frenzy), and Shockwave (who stayed behind to guard Cybertron under Megatron's orders), transplanting them from their metallic homeworld of Cybertron to present-day Earth.

The Decepticons defeated and the Autobots poised to return to Cybertron, but this was blurred somewhat when the series was picked up for continuation, and the Autobots remained on the planet to protect it from renewed Decepticon threats, has to be the conclusion of the series. The Autobots make friends with their first two human allies, Spike Witwicky and his father Sparkplug Witwicky. A paraplegic computer whiz named Chip Chase became an additional ally in a few episodes later.

Animated Oscar 2012 Nomination

Animated Feature Film
-A Cat in Paris- Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
-Chico Rita- Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
-Kung Fu Panda 2- Jennifer Yuh Nelson
-Puss in Boots- Chris Miller
-Rango- Gore Verbinski

Visual Effects
-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2- Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
-Hugo- Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
-Real Steel- Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
-Rise of the Planet of the Apes- Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
-Transformers: Dark of the Moon- Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier

Children Of The Animation Movie

Beat out Hollywood heavyweights Steven Spielberg and Pixar Animation Studios to collect surprise nominations in Oscar's peculiar animated feature race Tuesday, two obscure foreign movies being released by a tiny New York company. The French thriller "A Cat in Paris" and Spanish musical "Chico & Rita" - primarily hand-drawn movies little known outside the animation world - bested high-profile projects from perennial academy favorites Spielberg ("The Adventures of Tintin") and Pixar ("Cars 2").

Which Paramount is re-releasing for a limited one-week engagement Friday, and the DreamWorks Animation titles "Kung Fu Panda 2" and "Puss in Boots", three computer-animated Hollywood movies also made the list - Gore Verbinski's western comedy "Rango". "I'm amazed by the selection," said "Puss in Boots" director Chris Miller. "It's really wide open. It's been that way since the awards season kicked in. There's a lot of great films and different styles from some different countries. There's a lot of tradition in that part of the academy and respect for diversity."

The eligible Pixar film was not nominated, for the first time since the animated feature category was created in 2001. "For the last few years we've had a Pixar front-running film that was miles ahead of the other films," said animation historian Jerry Beck, editor of the website Cartoon Brew. "But this wasn't their year. Visually and technically, 'Cars 2' has got all the craft, but story-wise it was a kids' picture."

In which cameras record the movement of actors, then visual-effects artists and animators add to the performances, "Tintin" was made using the hybrid filmmaking technique of motion capture. How to treat "Tintin" was a matter of some debate in the animation community, however. Which received an Oscar nomination for its visual effects, the same method was used to create the hyper-intelligent animals in the live-action movie "Rise of the Planet of the Apes".

REBECCA KEEGAN

Paprika Animated Movie

Paprika

Animation, Horror, SciFi/Fantasy
Release date: June 1, 2007, LA
Release date: May 25, 2007, NY
Running time: 90 minutes
Distributed by: Sony Pictures Classics

Synopsis:
Therapists are allowed by a machine to enter patients' dreams. Only a woman therapist (nicknamed "Paprika") seems able to stop all hell breaks loose, when it's stolen.



Cast:
Megumi Hayashibara
Tôru Furuya
Kôichi Yamadera
Katsunosuke Hori
Toru Emori
Akio Ôtsuka
Hideyuki Tanaka
Satomi Koorogi
Daisuke Sakaguchi
Mitsuo Iwata